I’m searching for examples of self-governance efforts to reduce technology risk. Do people have cases to suggest? The more similar to AI development the better.
Examples from academia:
Leo Szilard and other physicists coordinating to prevent Germany from obtaining atomic bomb data, 1939-1940
Various efforts in biotechnology:
Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA, 1975
Mutations Database Initiative, 1999-2001
Synthetic biology conferences SB1.0 and SB2.0, 2006
Biology journals discussing publication restrictions, 2001-2011
Examples from the commercial sector:
DNA synthesis companies screening orders and buyers, 2004-2012
Efforts by the nanotechnology companies in the US, UK and Europe, 2004-2007
Maybe something about recommendation algorithms? Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. taking steps to clamp down on hate speech etc. Or to make their algorithms less racially biased etc.